Quotes About Knowledge

We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around a paper it's often a caricature that has become canonical.

Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.

Great men honour intelligence, little men honour stupidity.

The wisest man knows he know nothing.

What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.

...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.

The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is.

In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.

I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.

Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.

Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?

Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.

Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.

The only thing a man knows is himself.

Oh good gray head which all men knew!

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.

True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.

Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.

The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.

So much one man can do that does both act and know.